Are there any actors/actresses with aspergers syndrome?

Question by Secular Libertarian: Are there any actors/actresses with aspergers syndrome?
I think that movies like Adam & Mozart & the whale are offensive because they have neurotypical people portraying people with aspergers. I have aspergers btw.
Thats just like a white man painting his skin black & portraying a black man or a man putting ona dress & portraying a woman.

Why cant they get any actors with aspergers to play those roles?
Is the entertainment industry another industry where aspergers is a disqualification?

Best answer:

Answer by El JefeWell, Lizzy Clark played Poppy in Dustbin Baby, and she has Asperger’s.

Two others that have it are Daryl Hannah and Dan Aykroyd.

There is speculation about others, Marilyn Monroe and Robin Williams, for example, but I don’t know if that’s ever been confirmed. I don’t know that it ever would be for Monroe, for example, since clinical psychology rarely used that diagnosis back when she was alive.

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Paddy Consistine, an english actor, filmmaker, screenwriter, musician and frequent collaborator with Shane Meadows. Best-known to audiences for his portrayals of dark, troubled, morally or mentally ambiguous characters.

He came to prominence in the early-2000s with a string of strong performances in independent films that prompted The Observer to describe him as “The best-kept secret in British movies”. In addition to leading and supporting roles in Hollywood films, Considine has frequently acted in independent British films and television shows. Aside from acting, he directed and wrote Tyrannosaur, a film based on his directorial debut, the short film Dog Altogether both of which feature actors Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman and Paul Popplewell. He was both actor and writer on several music videos, namely the video for The Arctic Monkeys, “Leave Before the Lights Come On”.

Among other accolades, Considine has received an Evening Standard British Film Award, Empire Award and Thessaloniki Film Festival Awards as well as eight other award nominations for his acting work. He has also won a BAFTA Award, British Independent Film Award, Silver Lion at the 2007 Venice Film Festival and the Seattle International Film Festival Short Film Jury Award for best short with Dog Altogether as well as a World Cinema Directing Award for his feature directorial debut film, Tyrannosaur at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.

He was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome in 2010, and revealed this publicly in April 2011.

Daryl Hannah, an American film actress who made her screen debut in 1978, Hannah starred in a number of Hollywood films throughout the 1980s, notably Blade Runner, Splash, Wall Street, Roxanne. Her most recent notable film role was Elle Driver in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill films.

She revealed to the public how suffering from Asperger’s affected her past career in 2010.